ROPEWALK CHAMBERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Contributor to the Ropewalk Disease Blog
- Editor for the Ropewalk Personal Injury Blog
- Member of Chambers' Editorial Committee
- Member of the Government Legal Department 's Junior Junior
Abigail is a member of the Government Legal Department's Junior Junior scheme. She is a member of Chambers' Editorial Committee and an Editor for the Ropewalk Personal Injury Blog.
In her spare time, Abigail enjoys running, cycling, hiking and kayaking. She is a keen horsewoman.
Prior to joining the Bar, Abigail was a senior manager in a motorcycle dealership where she gained varied experience in commercial, employment and business matters.
Abigail is a contributor to the Ropewalk Disease Blog. She has also delivered webinars on issues of breach of duty (COSHH) and causation in disease cases.
Abigail has been instructed in cases involving surveillance evidence where there have been disputes as to the extent of any injury and future loss.
Abigail deals with credit hire claims, acting for claimants and defendants in small claims and fast track trials. She is conversant with the key issues around enforceability, need, period, impecuniosity, rate and intervention. She regularly deals with claims for taxi hire.
Job Titles:
- Assistant Director of Clerking
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- Assistant
- Practice Manager
Damian Powell acts for the first Defendant in a successful application for an order that the Claimant's solicitors pay the Defendant's...
"Gareth is very approachable and happy to go the extra mile. He has a recognised expertise in disease claims."
Gareth McAloon has recently had a guest appearance on an episode of Shoosmith's Serious Injury Podcast titled Inquest Process and Care Home Claims....
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Practice Manager
Jack McCracken specialises in personal injury, industrial disease and data protection, information and privacy cases.
Jack's advocacy experience includes multi-day trials, inquests and tribunal hearings. He has experience of cross-examining expert witnesses who are often the leading experts in their fields. He often works in other practise areas which overlap with these core areas, dealing with technical issues connected to employment and contractual matters, including insurance policy disputes.
Areas of Expertise
Personal Injury
Jack has practised in all areas of personal injury work since joining Ropewalk Chambers in 2014. His work has a broad span, covering casualty claims in employer's liability, public liability, and road traffic cases.
He increasingly focuses on claims which involve an element of complexity in respect of both liability and quantum issues.
He has experience of high value claims, involving serious physical and psychiatric injuries with extensive expert medical evidence across multiple specialisms.
His experience on liability issues includes: workplace accidents where issues relating to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013; Highways Act 1980 cases, involving pedestrian, cyclist and motor claims; Animals Act 1971 cases, involving claims relating to injuries caused by horses, dogs and livestock. Jack has regularly worked on international private law claims, including holiday sickness claims with contested expert evidence in the field of Microbiology), Travel Package claims, and accidents abroad.
His experience on medical causation issues and quantum includes brain injury cases (where there is evidence from Neurologists, Neuropsychologists, and Psychologists), complex orthopaedic issues, and ophthalmological evidence.
His recent case work includes:
Representing a claimant who suffered a brain injury in a building site accident. Liability was resolved in favour of the claimant in a two-day split trial. The matter subsequently settled at a joint settlement meeting
Representing a highway authority at a preliminary trial of liability in a high value claim for an injury leading to chronic pain
Representing two claims who were injured in a high-speed road traffic collision
Representing a claimant who sustained a brain injury in a road traffic accident.
Jason Cox and Gareth McAloon's latest article is an introduction to the use of latest Ogden Tables, explaining the effects and...
Job Titles:
- Personal Injury / 17 Jun 2021 / Dishonesty and Exceptional Circumstances under CPR Rule 45.29J
- Personal Injury / 20 Oct 2021 / Occupiers' Liability and Mental State: Trespassers Who Change
Jessica is regularly instructed by both claimants and defendants in a wide range of road traffic accident matters including personal injury claims, credit hire cases and cases where fundamental dishonesty is in issue.
Jessica has been involved at all stages of litigation in a wide range of cases involving animals from successfully defending in a veterinary negligence claim to horse-riding accidents to Animals Act claims.
Jessica's careful attention to detail and ability to digest complex factual and legal issues are attributes which particularly lend themselves to clinical negligence matters. Jessica has experience in a range of clinical negligence matters, ranging from loss of a chance to delayed diagnosis.
Jessica welcomes instructions from families and other interested parties. She is willing to accept instructions on a pro bono or conditional fee basis where appropriate. Notable recent cases include representing the family at an inquest into the death of a woman who died from complications arising seven years after an endometrial ablation procedure, where Jessica successfully obtained a finding of neglect.
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- Personal Injury / 10 Feb 2022 / Claims for Functional Neurological Disorder
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- Digital Marketing & Events Manager
Michelle Draycott (2) Paul Maxwell Draycott v Hannells Letting Limited (T/A Hannells Letting Agents) [2010] EWHC 217 (QB); 3 All ER 411 (2010); HLR 27 (2010); L & TR 12 (2010); NPC 18; (2011) 1 WLR 1606. First Divisional Court appeal involving the Tenancy Deposit Scheme created by the Housing Act 2004.
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- Counsel for the Defendant in the Case, Offers an Appraisal of the Recent Judgment of Jeremy Hyam KC, .
- Expert
- Specialist
Philip is a specialist practitioner in industrial disease cases and one of the country's leading junior barristers in this area of practice. He has been routinely recognised as a leader in this field by his peers and by published guides to the legal profession.
Philip is an expert advisor and advocate in relation to claims involving fraudulent conduct, of which he has extensive experience. A particular strength is his ability to work closely with solicitors and insurers to address and defeat such claims, whether arising entirely from fraudulently behaviour (staged accidents, phantom claims etc), or including a fraudulent element (malingering, unlawful credit hire etc).
Philip Turton, counsel for the Defendant in the case, offers an appraisal of the recent judgment of Jeremy Hyam KC,...
Philip Turton speaks on the subject of Liability for Injuries in Sport. In this presentation Philip, one of the co-authors...
Rachel is a specialist in high-value clinical negligence and personal injury claims, and related inquests.
"Rochelle is a highly experienced and knowledgeable barrister, extremely thorough with excellent attention to detail and a very skilled advocate."
Rochelle is a clinical negligence specialist with considerable experience in a wide range of claims.
Rochelle is a very experienced and highly regarded barrister with a busy industrial disease practice.
"Sarah is thorough and pragmatic in advising and preparing for court."
"Thomas is incredibly robust, knowledgeable, and approachable. He is always available to talk matters through and provide advice and expertise. His work is always of a very high standard and his advocacy skills are unparalleled."
Job Titles:
- Director of Clerking and Business Development